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lire 4 Portland Ob^>. ver Thursday. June 24. 1976 CINEMA 30 Neil Kelly earns award * ! M «tov« Onus on accused The taw is nearly identical to the 1959 Prisons A ct which made it a crime in South Africa to publish photos or “false information" of prisons or prisoners. In each case, the onus is on the accused to prove that "reasonable steps" were taken to verify the information. One mistate- ment can lead to conviction and a one- year jail sentence. Since passage of the Prisons Act, South African papers and magazines have pub lished little about prison conditions. But major newspapers have spoken out strongly against the new censorship bill. According to an editorial in the Rand Daily Mail. "Sealing off mental institu tions -- because that is what it means -- merely shows that there is something to hide." The Cape Times joined the criticism: "The new bill appears to be another move to clothe the doings of officialdom in secrecy . . . Where will it stop?” The scandal was sparked by reports in the Johannesburg Sunday Times that shareholders in Smith Mitchell were reaping huge profits from the shabby institutions. The article likened the pri vate asylums to'"A South African ver sion of the Dickensian workhouse, an uncomfortable reminder of the bad days in Bedlam . . . " It quoted a retired mental health commissioner who described the hospi tals as “human w arehouses rendering only custodial care." The scandal peaked in January with the publication of photographs of patients Abby Pig on the Pit Thomas R. Vickers, Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Oregon and Its Jurisdiction, has called the Grand Lodge into its Sixteenth Annual Communication on Monday, June 28th at 9:00 a.m. at The Town Hall, 3425 N. Montana Avenue. Also meeting is the Fifteenth Annual Communication of the Grand Chapter of Oregon. Order of Eastern Star. Events to which the public is invited are: the Annual Promenade, Town Hall Ball Room, June 26th from 10:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m. Thanksgiving Serivces, Bethel A.M.E. Church, 5828 N.E. 8th Avenue, Sunday, June 27th at 11:00 a.m. Annual Banquet, Town Hall. June 28th at 7:00 p.m. Senator George Fleming from the State of Washington is quest speaker. M.W.G.M. TOM VICKERS Pig on the Pit is ready to provide your picnic or banquet with the best in ford and service. SHOP GREYHOUND RACING Meet T ri'M efs Driver-of-the-Month. 'fyau'cC ¿¿6c fo lENOW'S H ear FOR B e tte r B R A N D S you know VA R IE TIES you like POST TIME 7:30 PM Better service for more people. Pig on the Pit provided dinner for the employees and friends of Braniff Airlines at laurelhurat Park. Approximately 340 servings were provided: B arb cq u e sliced beef, potato and tossed g re e n salads, Ita rb e q u e B aked Beans, bread and beer. Don Mitchell and Pig on the Pit staff served. Masons hold annual meet excíteme nt Charles Czarnecki is an experienced man behind the wheel He was a private chauf feur before he started driving buses. And his 10 year Safe Driving Award proves he's a professional. Chuck has been on * 5 6 Beaverton/ Aloha/Progress for several years and has ob served a great increase in ridership with the development of Washington Square, nis con cern for his passengers is evidenced by his comment, “ I try to please them all. It s no surprise Chuck is our Driver of the Month S’ 213 N. Killingsworth Patton hosts program c e iv e d by WHO or th e Red C ro ss. "We phoned the office of the President of the International Red Cross in Geneva eleven days after Mr. Van Der Merwe made known his invitations." Portland Church spokesman, Steve Tiger, explain ed. “The Secretary to the President, Madame Cellerier, told us that no such invitation has been received. We then telexed the International Headquarters of WHO. also in Geneva, and in a telexed reply were told that Dr. Mahler as well had received no invitation." The existence of the privately owned "mental" camps first came to light on August 9, 1970, when a Church of Scientology researcher stopped at the Rand West Sanatorium to ask directions to get to Johannesburg. He discovered that he had stumbled upon one of a network of mental institutions owned by Smith Mitchell and Company. Among the dominating figures of the company is David Tabatznik, a multi millionaire of Polish origin. Tabatznik is president of the Board of Protea, a public international corporation. He also governs the Smith Mitchell network. According to the article published in Dagens Nyheter the biggest share hold er in Protea is the Standard Bank of South Africa, which is largely control led by the Rockefeller owned Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. 282-6366 3 0 0 0 NE A lb e rta and interviews with hospital staff mem bers in the monthly journal Peace and Freedom, published bv the Church of Scientology. . The journal reported that the gov Le Roy Patton, advisory specialist in ernment pays Smith Mitchell a fee of 2.50 rands per patient a day for whites Area II of the Portland Public Schools, and one rand for Blacks - about half the will be the new host of "People Perspec cost of maintaining patients in state- tive", the interview program with Port Ians area Black citizens, aired on KBPS owned institutions. The Health Ministry promised in a every Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. On July 2. Patton will interview Mrs. recent report to Parliment to undertake Osley Gates and Mrs. Zack Ph.llips, rep new construction of state owned institu tions. But Health Minister Dr. Schalk resentatives of the Afro-American Heri van der Merwe conceded it will take up tage' Quilt Committee. Mrs. Gates and to 15 years to "clear the backlog." Mrs. Phillips discuss the Aro-American Meanwhile, Smith Mitchell plans to erect Heritage Exhibit on display at the Ore two more private hospitals for another gon Historical Society from the 1st of July thorugh September 30th. 2.400 African patients. Under the new law, South Africans won't learn much more about the mental health crisis. The Rockefeller connection In a television interview last week the South African Minister of Health, Schalk Van Der Merwe, accused the Church of Scientology in South Africa of being the motivating force behind the in ternational expose and vehemently de nied the existence of the camps. Van Der Merwe publically extended an invitation to the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to investi gate psychiatric facilities in South Africa. It now appears that the investigation will not be permitted after all. “I think this invitation was absolutely necessary," sta te d Van D er M erw e. “ It w as necessary for the image of psychiatric services in South Africa and in particu lar for the image of the Department of Health, because we have been accused of keeping labor camps for Black pa tien ts - Black psychiatric p atients in South Africa - and this is absolutely false. I therefore invite the Director General and the World Health Organi zation, Dr. Mahler, to personally and with any other person that he may decide on to accompany him, or as an alternative, the International Red Cross Organization, to come and personally investigate the con ditions of psychiatric treatment in South Africa." Officials of the Church have charged that Van Der Merwe's invitations were intended solely for the press and public. They say that no invitations were re and to South Africa Racial bedlam in South Africa (Coot from page 1 col. 3) asylums because the state lacked funds for new state hospitals. “These allegations that we are acting improperly to save money, or that mil lions of rands (South African monetary unit about equal to the dollar) are being made out of madness. . . well, that's nonsense," Gilliland said. “We've got nothing to hide," he added. The censorship bill was approved two weeks after the interview , with G illi land's support Macon County Line A Portland home remodeling firm has received high national honors for kitchen and bathroom rem odeling design and construction in competition sponsored by the American Institute of Kitchen Deal era. The Neil Kelly Company. 735 N. 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